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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1942

1942.46 (estate: 887)

Puerto constructivo con hombre grande

c.1942

Oil on cardboard

31 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. (80 x 101 cm)

Signed lower right: JTG; undated

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo

Exhibitions

1974 The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection, October 13–November 24, 1974, no. 91*, Listed as number 41 in Caracas exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, January 13–February 26, 1975; Galería INC, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, August 22–September 1975.

1990b Museo Torres García

Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Retrospectiva de pinturas 1906-1949, con piezas aún no expuestas del acervo, reunidas en homenaje a Manolita, 1990, no. 32.

1991 Fundación Torres-García

Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, CIUDAD - Torres García, October 1991, no. 17, ill.

Published References

Haedo 1944

Haedo, Oscar F. "Un Pintor Constructivista: Joaquín Torres García." Correo Literario (June 15, 1944), ill. p. 5.

Fundación Torres García 1987

Fundación Torres García. Acervo de la Fundación. Montevideo, 1987. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 29.

Pereda 1991

Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 198.

Haber 1992

Haber, Alicia. "Torres en su Museo." El País (Montevideo), January 5, 1992, ill.

Record last updated June 29, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Puerto constructivo con hombre grande, c.1942 (1942.46)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1786 (accessed on July 4, 2025).